Earthquake fear ends Dutch gas boom:
The Dutch are proud of the way they have created a country by fighting back the ocean—but when they started making their own earthquakes it proved a step too far.
The tiny village of Zeerijp in the northern Netherlands looks ordinary on the surface, yet closer inspection reveals cracks in homes, schools and historic buildings.
A series of quakes caused by extractions at Europe's biggest gas field in Groningen province culminated in a 3.4-magnitude tremor in January, the biggest for six years.
[...] Facing a wave of public anger over the threat to life and limb, the Dutch government announced that all gas extraction from Groningen will end by 2030.
(Score: 4, Informative) by maxwell demon on Thursday September 27 2018, @05:01PM
Note that only those buildings that didn't fall apart are still standing. So when judging from the buildings that still stand means you inherently have a massive selection bias, as the vast majority of buildings the Romans built no longer exist.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.